The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's (Johnny Depp) idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's beautiful daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley). In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his crew to live forever as the undead.

2004 SATELLITE AWARDS:
Best Costume Design: Penny Rose (Nominated)
Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical (Nominated)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Johnny Depp (Nominated)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical: Geoffrey Rush (Nominated)
Best Visual Effects: John Knoll (Nominated)

YOUNG ARTIST AWARDS:
Best Family Feature Film, Comedy or Musical (Nominated)

ABOUT THIS MOVIE

(Compiled by Sherry)

Quotes from Johnny Depp:

"I'm a sucker to my own brain. It's like it reaches a point to where you can't help yourself, you know? Regardless of what other people are saying around you, or whispering around you. Maybe they're not so happy with your work, or the character. Maybe they feel it's a little too much. But I couldn't help myself. I had a very strong feeling about the guy, about the character, and yeah, I couldn't control it. It had to come out. "--Johnny Depp
SFX magazine
September 2003

"When I read the script, I felt nine years old again." --Johnny Depp
Empire magazine
September 2003

"I'm still too dumb to make choices just because it is going to be successful. In terms of this being a giant production, I still chose it the same way I choose other films. I really saw something in the character I could do something with."--Johnny Depp
Empire magazine
September 2003

"There were moments when Orlando and I would look at each other and say, 'Do you believe we're getting to do this?' I don't think it gets much better than being Capt. Jack. I loved the character. I'm not one of those guys who becomes the character, but when we wrapped, I got depressed. I'm going to miss him."--Johnny Depp
Star Tribune
July 6, 2003

"I thought that Sparrow knew the greatest secret that Barbossa wanted hidden, and I was actually going to add it into the film, but once you start getting into sword fights and things like that you run out of time. I thought that Barbossa's greatest secret was that his first name was Hector. I'd come up to Geoffrey on the set and say, 'Good morning, Hector.' He'd laugh."--Johnny Depp
Visimag.com

"Initially, when I was doing the research, I started thinking of pirates in the 18th century and I thought well what were they, you know. It's easy just to say that they were these sort of scoundrels and scalawags and going around, you know, ripping people off, but I actually thought that these guys were basically the rock and roll stars of that era. So, to me, I mean the coolest rock and roll star, the greatest rock and roll star is Keith Richards - the quintessential rock and roll star. So Keith became a great inspiration for the character and a main ingredient."--Johnny Depp
E! Behind-the-Scenes Special

Quotes from others:

"I've been lucky because I do regard myself as a slightly aging character and I've been able to be in scenes with delightful women, like Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, Goldie Hawn... It's been a perk of the job. And the prettiest of all, of course, was Johnny Depp."-- Geoffrey Rush
"The Sharon Osbourne Show"
October 2003

"I love watching Johnny work, in all of his films. I think he's so courageous and brave. He puts himself out there, and gets it, and it's amazing." --Orlando Bloom
SFX magazine
September 2003

"I loved sharing a screen with him. God, I feel like such a little kid right now, talking about a hero, but he's the man."--Orlando Bloom
GQ magazine
August 2003

"It probably scared some of the [studio] executives the first time they saw the dailies because he's so far out there. I'm sure they were saying, 'Oh, my gosh, we've got a pirate with mascara on! What are they doing down there in the Caribbean?' "--Jerry Bruckheimer (producer)
Star Tribune
July 6, 2003

"I don't think anyone was expecting that. If I were forced to choose between the Jack Sparrow I wrote and the Jack Sparrow he created, I'd pick what he did. But it was nothing at all like I imagined." --Ted Elliott (writer)
Star Tribune
July 6, 2003

"Johnny Depp's performance is completely outrageous and I love it. I think the first day everyone was like, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'I'm having fun.' After that we all went, 'Great.' I'm such a fan of his. There are very few actors around at the moment who have the courage to do that, and it was really great as a young actress seeing somebody taking a risk and going for it and having a laugh. And it paid off brilliantly."--Keira Knightley
Visimag.com

"So, how do I tell the audience that this is not a normal Disney movie, that this is going to be a departure from the movie that their little 4 year old brother can see? So, what I want to do is get a real edgy actor, an actor that has a body of work that's quirky and interesting, and who else but someone who played Edward Scissorhands? Johnny Depp is a brilliant actor and he has had such integrity with his choices."--Jerry Bruckheimer (producer)
E! Behind-the-Scenes Special

"It's just a wonderful characterization. The audience finds the character hysterical, and that's exactly what we wanted him to do."--Jerry Bruckheimer (producer)
E! Behind-the-Scenes Special

"It was the perfect movie because he [Depp] didn't have to play the kind of romantic lead, you know. We have Orlando and Keira taking care of that quadrant, so he really can kind of go for it, and I think he had quite a brave performance."--Gore Verbinski (director)
E! Behind-the-Scenes Special

"He's the dude man, he's kicking it and I'm just the straight guy, but, it was just, I'd be like 'Forget the close-up, I'll have a two shot,' do you know what I mean? I just loved being on camera with him. It kind of was like the odd couple."--Orlando Bloom
E! Behind-the-Scenes Special

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